Interview
I'm frustrated with my job. The management is appalingly bad. For instance, the main head of coding decided we needed 10 new coders. None of the hospitals wanted them or even had room for them. They all got stuck in the hospital I work in. Six of them don't have desks. Three of them are in a room with no network access, so they don't have computers either. And the manager (the same one who decided we needed these people) refuses to release the money it would take to wire that room. So for several months, they've been sitting in a windowless room doing nothing.
This same manager decided we need to have everything done within 6 weeks of the patient being discharged. She won't tell us why. There is no urgency in coding. We're just collecting statistical data. Most of the patients don't have discharge summaries in the system within 6 weeks, and in the stuff I do a lot of the casenotes are still with the pregnant women if their admission was for something pre-natal. So we're making stuff up. We have to use the "first impression" notes from the emergency room and whatever one-word descriptions we can find in the ward admissions books. None of it is right. In a job where accuracy has always been more important than speed, our moron of a manager has dictated that we need to sacrifice all accuracy for the sake of speed for no reason.
I hate people who can't think logically. Because of this, I've been looking for a new job for a while. I don't like working in health care. It's not what I always wanted to do. It's what I did because I couldn't get a job as a software tester or web designer, and I needed to pay my rent. I don't enjoy medical paperwork and the thought of doing it for the rest of my life makes me want to jump in front of a train.
The good news in all this is that I have an interview on Tuesday. Today I took the bus to where the interview is and saw where I'm going. I also got a nice new shirt to wear. I want this job. It's a position as a researcher and editor's assistant for a financial magazine. It would be a creative job working with intelligent people. And I've always wanted to work in publishing. It would be ideal.
I'll let you all know how it goes. I really need a new job.
Alana
